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Canadian Contemporary Dance Choreographer, Dancer. Former Artistic Director of Le Groupe Dance Lab, one of Canada’s preeminent performing arts institutions. Now Tony is back in Montreal pursuing his career as an independent artist in dance and photographer.
Hello,
My name is Dylan Parks and I’m a second-year student at Concordia’s Fine Arts department studying dontemporary dance. Before coming to Montreal I lived in Ottawa and attended Canterbury’s Dance Programme. There, we had the amazing opportunity of participating in workshops and attending performances at Arts Court to see Le Groupe perform your choreography. The most recent of your works that I got to see was the Revolver in 2006 (if my memory serves me). I was extremely moved by your choreography and whenever I think back on it, I wish that I had spoken up during the Q & A period to ask you more about it.
I know you’re probably extremely busy (I read your last post about Vancouver, congratulations!) but I was wondering if you might have time to answer a couple questions I had about your choreographic process.
I was wondering how you started your research and exploration with Revolver, I read that it was about the shootings at Dawson, and it’s obvious to me that you were trying to dig at something very disturbing and almost sinister. What kind of approach did you start with? Do you normally begin choreographing the same way, or is each piece a new pathway?
I didn’t have the opportunity of seeing Bloodtelling and Other Pleasant Things but was your process similar for this choreography as well?
The reason I’m asking all these in-depth questions is I’ve chosen to examine your creative process and your work for a paper I’m writing. If you have time to answer any of my questions I’ve left my contact e-mail and I would love to hear back from you.
Thanks and good luck in Vancouver,
Dylan Parks
Hello Dylan, I hope that you were able to write your paper.